step 1: ban apartments step 2: now everyone can afford to live in a spacious single family home with a yard and a garage close to school, work, and amenities step 3: utopia :D

Half the Answer #63: Trent and Caitlin talk to Chris Geidner of Law Dork about the absolute deluge of legal news that seems to be crashing over us like a tsunami. What are the current assaults on our constitutional rights? What are judges and lawmakers doing to defend those rights?

There's no practical way for a labeler or blocklist to operate at the kind of scale that bsky demands without being an automated, algorithmic system; there's equally no way for one to operate without the maintainers getting mulched by the extremely vocal monstrous minority on this site.

incredible 🤣

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>North Korea having troops on the ground >>American tech companies shirking sanctions left and right >>>China providing a bunch of money to kill Ukrainians “But have you considered escalation?”

I'm just a dumb engineer, I'm not a lawyer or politician; I don't know how to remedy all the ills of the world. But Dr. Hancox-Li here is speaking to me. This is what I want to hear more of from any politician who claims to want to fix the US.

"By God I'll fight till hell freezes over, then I'll cut the ice and fight on."

I’ve been using the CIA World Factbook online since I was a little kid. What a stupid, pointless desecration.

Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.

This is one reason I keep trying to remind people of the power that we have. That we have *always* had. Not because I’m in denial, but because I know history. I’m no sophisticated intellectual, but I do know we’re going to win even though the bad shit is really terrible right now.

the bolsheviks have remained a touchstone for a hundred years, because they were leftists, and they won. how did they achieve this? www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerle...

If you truly believed that getting rid of the illegals would bring about a shangri-la of social and economic benefits you wouldn't start the project in liberal cities in blue states with resistant governments, you'd start in red states with friendly governments and make an example for others

I beg to differ and recommend this excellent article on seizing state power through peaceful means by Liberal Currents: www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerle...

audrey was curious about how the stories about the Portland ICE occupation compared to reality. once she got to know the people on the ground, she was determined to stick with them. what she saw, felt and learned over the last four months is summarized here: www.liberalcurrents.com/what-its-rea...

What really got to me in this essay, other than the horrible particulars and the inspiring details about the community response, was when she first looked into the protests, on October first, and learned it had already been going for 119 days

Somewhat ironically, this is a problem that both some leftist and populist-rightist movements share: their ideology *requires* them to believe that they are the authentic voice of The People and so they are ideologically constrained from recognizing that their ideas are not, in fact, popular.

he's still losing ground

Great thread on a misreading of the foundations of US power that you can find as much among more "edgy" European as American elites

It needs to be made very clear to businesses what the consequences will be if they support or enable Trumps federal paramilitary forces.

in order to save this country we are probably going to have to do things that make rich men sad 😔

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In my opinion these people are the real heroes of the resistance to ICE. There’s no credit, no one can talk about their work (because they directly contact vulnerable families). It’s expensive and dreary and neverending. ICE follows them around. But they refuse to abandon their neighbors

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Consider Target - they thought they were making a good business decision by axing all the Pride merch, getting rid of all the "woke" signifiers. But it turns out the market actually really likes that stuff and gets mad when you make a big deal of tossing it.

People keep saying Bezos wrecked the Post on purpose but he could have just done that if he wanted to, no need to drag it out for years. I think he and his fellow traveler billionaires have thoroughly cooked their worldview and honestly believe there is a vast, silent, ignored right wing audience

But whoever we get MUST tap into that rage and hatred before it turns into exhaustion and channel it into a reconstructive project or this only ends the bad way.

MacKenzie Scott should publicly offer to buy Washington Post

Ya that's a good strategy bsky.app/profile/lxtr...

There is no return to normalcy, but the beginning of a generational project to rebuild the United States into something else and ideally better. In any other version of this, the detention centers become death camps and we find out just how hot the American Years of Lead will be.

For all the “drawdown” talk ICE continues to be all over Minneapolis. Feels endless

So don't buy a gun. You're not going to out-shoot BORTAC. You're not going to out-opsec the FBI. You're not facing a civilian paramilitary that operates at arm's length from the government. Armed insurgency is not a winning strategy for us. Resistance is. Elections are the people, speaking.

The Religious Right was worried about the gays meanwhile their leaders are pedophile rapists and their representatives having drug fueled orgies.

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

The scariest part of last year was the bit between the death of Charlie Kirk on 9/11's Eve and the October shutdown. That three week period in September was one of the scariest times in my life.

“Ordinary, salt of the earth people would never tolerate a sexual abuser in their midst. Now time to take a big sip of coffee and respond to this group text with my old fraternity brothers.”

This indifference or enthusiasm for sexual violence is a cultural pathology born of misogyny, not a peculiar or unique degeneracy of the rich. You know people who have responded to rape like that.

I understand the reasons why it’s more jarring and consequential to see it happen among billionaires, but the kind of shrugging disinterest or impishly approving encouragement of sexual abuse among Epstein’s circle is the same dynamic that happens in less powerful milieus.

Kidding, sort of, but this is the actual strategic problem imo with a lot of property destruction tactics, at least in the US. Totally apart from the issue of local community response (people usually find it alienating) the tactic becomes the conversation instead of the issue you're protesting.

Increasingly polarized into opposing dumpster fire tactics not even on principle as because I never want to see a dumpster fire tactical debate post again ever for the rest of my life.

Unhelpful distortion and binary thinking. That book says no such thing. It’s more like, nonviolence was the public strategy that won the moral and legal war, armed self-defense was the private reality that kept the organizers alive long enough to win it.

okay heads up: if you say "tescreal" unironically i'm just going to consider everything else you say to be unimportant

I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar. If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

it is really easy as Americans in 2026 to think that our current crop of organizers and activists are uniquely annoying, intractable, and brain-poisoned: they’re really not.

yeah telos is bad. telos is always bad. sorry virtue ethicists but also not sorry www.patreon.com/posts/141203...

Likewise I actually don’t appreciate when otherwise anti cosmetic surgery people make a special little carve out for ffs “I don’t think we should alter the human form, unless you were Born Wrong, in which case it’s only natural you should be Fixed”

Seeing yet another 'using whistles is disablist' piece circulating: for the 40 millionth time, using disabled people as cover like this is disgusting and calculated to prey on people who are anxious about doing the wrong thing. Doesn't escape notice that white people are the worst offenders.

you / will stancil